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eared seal of the southern hemisphere; the thick soft underfur is the source of sealskin
the male fur seal is much larger than the female - an eared seal of the northern Pacific
How To Use fur seal In A Sentence
- A Falkland Islands fur seal perches on a rock outcrop off New Island, where seafood-rich waters nourish a wildlife population diverse in nature and often astonishing in number.
- Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli, Ross seal Ommatophoca rossi and crabeater seal Lobodon carcinophagus are occasionally present on Heard Island (at the extreme northern limit of their pelagic ranges), while subantarctic fur seal A. tropicalis was first recorded on Heard Island in 1987/88. Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia
- In Antarctic fur seals, lactating females do not return to feed their pup until they have replenished their own reserves.
- Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds.
- A shore visit to the New Zealand fur seal colony was one of the other highlights of the trip.
- Today it is fueling the astonishing resurrection of the Antarctic fur seal, as well as the slow but steady recovery of several whale species.
- Fur seals can look adorable, but have grown a reputation on board for ferociousness.
- This indicates that pup mass changes can be used to calculate maternal attendance pattern and subantarctic fur seal pups lose mass continuously when fasting.
- Fur seals, elephant seals, and the great whales were all hunted to the brink of extinction.
- Lactating subantarctic fur seals can promote similar growth rate and body mass at weaning to their pups in different ways, i.e., using different provisioning patterns.
